Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #148
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Pest
- Rarity
- Mythic rare
- Indicative price
- 5.94 € · ★ 7.64 € · 7.75 $ · ★ 14.79 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Other Pests, Bats, Insects, Snakes, and Spiders you control get +1/+1. When Blex dies, you gain 4 life.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Ekaterina Burmak
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
Pests are typically harvested before they outgrow their enclosures. Blex is far from typical.
Search for Blex
Sorcery
Mana cost :
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put any number of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose 3 life for each card you put into your hand this way.
Rulings
If a creature is more than one of the creature types Blex cares about, it may haunt your dreams, but it will get the +1/+1 bonus only once.
While resolving Search for Blex, you may put any number of the cards into your hand, even if you don’t have enough life to cover it. We’ll assume you have a plan that’s better than “and then I’ll lose the game.”
